Education
Ph.D. in French and Francophone Studies, 2011
Duke University, Durham, NC
Dissertation Topic:
Utopian (Post)Colonies: Rewriting Race and Gender after the Haitian Revolution
Advisors: Deborah Jenson, Laurent Dubois
Certificate of Women's Studies, 2008
M.A. in French and Francophone Studies, 2007
Duke University, Durham, NC
M.A. in French, 2003
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
Graduate Certificate, Summer 2001
Institut d’Etudes françaises, Avignon, France
B.A. in International Studies, 1999
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Areas of Concentration: Political Science and Western Europe
Minor: French
Exchange student, 1997-1998
Université de Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France
Academic Positions
Lecturer, University of New Hampshire, 2011-2012
French and Humanities Programs, Durham, NH
Teaching Assistant, Haiti Humanities Lab, Spring 2011
Franklin Humanities Center, Duke University, Durham, NC
Lead French Instructor, NC Governor's School, Summer 2010
Meredith College, Raleigh, NC
Visiting Scholar, Program in Women’s Studies, Fall 2009
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Graduate Instructor of French, 2006-2010
Duke University, Durham, NC
French Instructor and Tutor, 2005-2006
Chapel Hill Institute for Cultural and Language Education, Carrboro, NC
Assistant to Professor V.Y. Mudimbe, 2004-2005
Duke University Program in Literature, Durham, NC
French Teacher, 2003-2004
Western Alamance High School, Elon, NC
French Teacher, 2001-2003
The Darrow School, New Lebanon, NY
Selected Teaching Experience
The Governor's School of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC
• Perspectives culturelles: Navigating Difference in the French-Speaking World, Summer 2010
Duke University, Durham, NC
• French 111S: Slavery Unchained, Freedom in the Literature of the French Atlantic, Spring 2010
• French 100: Perspectives culturelles et littéraires, Spring 2008
• French 76: Intermediate French, second semester, Spring and Fall 2007
• French 63: Intermediate French, first semester, Fall 2006 and Summer 2007
Chapel Hill Institute for Cultural and Language Education, Carrboro, NC
• French for Beginners, 2005, 2006
• French for Travel, 2005, 2006
Western Alamance High School, Elon, NC and The Darrow School, New Lebanon, NY
• Beginning French, 2001-2004
• Intermediate French, 2001-2004
Awards
Recipient: The Ernestine Friedl Award, Summer 2011
Recipient: Fellowship to Clinton Institute for American Studies, Summer 2011
Recipient: Women’s Studies Program Travel Award, Duke University, November 2009
Price Fellow: Julian Price Endowed Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2008-2009
Bass Fellow: Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Endowed Teaching Fellowship, Spring 2008
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow: Haitian Summer Institute, Florida
International University, Summer 2007
Selected Conferences and Talks
Paper: "Secouer le joug d'un esclavage honteux": the Abolitionism of Olympe de Gouges
French Colonial Historical Society Conference, Toronto, Ontario. June 2011
Paper: “Saint-Simonian Feminism and the Notion of a Moral Colonialism”
36th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium,
Yale University, New Haven, CT. October 2010
Paper: “Writing Revolution, Writing Independence,”
Atlantic Literacies Conference, UNC, Greensboro, NC. October 2010
Paper: “Real People, Exceptional Adventures: The Idealism of Madame Charles Reybaud,”
Romance Studies Colloquium, Duke University, Durham, NC. March 2010
Paper: “The Dramatic Abolitionism of Olympe de Gouges,” Symposium, Olympe de Gouges: Humanistische Schriftstellerin und feministische Aufklärerin, Institut für
Wissenschaft und Kunst, Vienna, Austria. November 2009
Paper: “The Evolution of the White Heroine's Identification with Slavery from Olympe
de Gouges to Madame Charles Reybaud,” 35th Annual Nineteenth-Century
French Studies Colloquium: Fossilization and Evolution, hosted by Brigham Young
University in Salt Lake City, UT. October 2009
Invited Talk: “Slavery on Stage: A French Author and her Haitian Context,”
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH. October 2009
